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  • You thought MMR was bad – you want bad science? Look at this.
  • geetee1972
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    They really have lost it this time

    Oddly enough, I was at uni (yes, really, an institute of learning) with a girl who recounted this story to me and point blank refused to eat anything that had been microwaved.

    It would be quite funny if it wasn’t incredibly disturbing.

    theflatboy
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    To be fair, it is quite funny. This:

    What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed him when the blood went in dead.

    is pure Brass Eye. 😀

    geetee1972
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    Apparently that part might be true, but not for the reasons stated. If you over heat blood I imagine you’ll denature the cells. I don’t know what effect that would have but it would be the intended one.

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    wwaswas
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    I think you’ll need a Thatcher angle to get any traction with this thread today 😉

    aracer
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    If you put Maggie in a microwave would she come back to life?

    D0NK
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    28,000+ shares and it’s clocked up 10 in the minute or so I was having a quick look, social media at it’s best 🙂

    hora
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    We’ve never owned a microwave. Use a cooker and stop being lazy.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Use a cooker and stop being lazy.

    we tried but the babies bottles kept melting.

    philconsequence
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    some people can’t afford a cooker hora.

    big_scot_nanny
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    Did they water the plant, then microwave it?

    Mark
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    Microwaves are more efficient. Use a microwave and stop wasting heat energy Hora

    🙂

    glenh
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    hora – Member
    We’ve never owned a microwave. Use a cooker and stop being lazy.

    Why not just use the far quicker and far more energy efficient method?

    gonefishin
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    A few years ago someone put that up on a notice board where I worked (and engineering company). I took it down, marked it out of ten like a school project and replaced it. It dissappeared completely soon after.

    samuri
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    Why not just use the far quicker and far more energy efficient method?

    Well for me it’s mainly because stuff cooked in a microwave is horrible.

    nick1962
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    My lodger won’t use or even go near a microwave,mind you he is from Blackburn where electricity is still treated with suspicion 😉

    geetee1972
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    Well for me it’s mainly because stuff cooked in a microwave is horrible.

    It doesn’t taste any different to stuff heated any other way.

    But if by your statement you mean you can’t stand microwave meals, or indeed, ready meals in general, then I think you have a point.

    D0NK
    Full Member

    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up, but they certainly have their uses.

    yunki
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    To be fair, it is quite funny. This:

    What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed him when the blood went in dead.
    is pure Brass Eye.

    Dorset_Knob
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    It doesn’t taste any different to stuff heated any other way.

    you saying you’d happily eat microwaved sausages, or bacon? weirdo.

    Dorset_Knob
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    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up, but they certainly have their uses.

    I do my poppadoms in mine to save with all the hot oil.

    zilog6128
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    There is a great debunk of this urban myth on snopes
    http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp

    geetee1972
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    you saying you’d happily eat microwaved sausages, or bacon? weirdo.

    I’ve done that before sure, but it was a combi microwave that also grilled as well as microwaved (at the same time).

    D0NK
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    I do my poppadoms in mine

    seriously or are you trying to get us to blow up our kitchens?

    Dorset_Knob
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    seriously or are you trying to get us to blow up our kitchens?

    yeah, nuke a raw poppadom for about 40-45 seconds, nice and crispy, not fatty.

    i’ve only had one fire, nothing serious (touch wood)

    GrahamS
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    Uh oh – I use a microwave to boil the water for my coffee at work (no kettle in the kitchen)

    No wonder I’m wilting – the microwave is clearly “corrupting the DNA” of the water… 🙄

    glenh
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    D0NK – Member
    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up, but they certainly have their uses.

    This. Although it depends what you call cooking I suppose.

    wwaswas
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    There’s a whole generation that grew up microwaving CD’s and eggs in their shells whilst drunk too. Interesting parties.

    GrahamS
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    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up

    😀

    Ro5ey
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    Yep … do bacon in the micro… it’s alright as it goes

    Not sure I’d do sausages

    sbob
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    D0NK – Member

    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up, but they certainly have their uses.

    I cook in big batches to keep costs down and then freeze the leftovers to be microwaved at a later date.
    That is all I use it for though.

    sbob
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    Ro5ey – Member

    Yep … do bacon in the micro… it’s alright as it goes

    Heretic! 👿

    aracer
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    I also cook poppadoms in the microwave – by far the quickest, easiest and healthiest way.

    You can’t cook with microwaves just warm things up

    Is that in the same way you don’t cook an egg by immersing it in a pan of boiling water, just warm it up?

    D0NK
    Full Member

    heating things up
    cooking
    🙂

    Is that in the same way you don’t cook an egg by immersing it in a pan of boiling water, just warm it up?

    that would be a type of cooking called boiling, tried making a boiled egg* in a microwave? yes you can heat up raw food enough so as to be edible still doesn’t really count as cooking tho does it? You can stick your bike on a turbo trainer and pedal it for a few hours, you wouldn’t call it riding tho would you?

    *yes I am aware you can get various contrivances that make microwave “omlettes” and “poached eggs”, not sure about boiled, I bet you a load of money they don’t bear much resemblance to the properly cooked version

    samuri
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    It doesn’t taste any different to stuff heated any other way.

    It’s not so much the taste (although I’ll happily argue that point), it’s the texture. Microwaved food, and I’m excluding anything in a packet because yes, that shit is horrible, ends up being a bit leathery.

    So non-packaged food like sausages, steak, potatoes, carrots etc… have to be cooked in the traditional way to get the best experience from the food.

    adjustablewench
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    So mixing flour, sugar, butter, eggs and a bit of milk putting it in a buttered basin with jam in the bottom then microwaving it for a few mins to make a sponge pudding isnt cooking?

    Wow learn something new every day on here.

    I will admit its dangerous though – do you know how fat you can get having puddings available so quickly 😀

    camo16
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    It’s not so much the taste (although I’ll happily argue that point), it’s the texture.

    +1

    Pie, particularly, should not venture near a microwave.

    On the other hand, jacket potatoes benefit from a blast prior to oven insertion.

    Tricky one this.

    molgrips
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    I don’t cook in the microwave, just warm up or defrost.

    My wife par-boils root veg and finishes them off in the oven for excellent roasted veg that aren’t too burnt but are all sweet and yummy.

    The other thing that’s good in the microwave is sponge puddings. If you microwave them they come out just like they’ve been steamed, but it’s much quicker and easier.

    philconsequence
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    non-packaged food like sausages, steak, potatoes, carrots etc… have to be cooked in the traditional way to get the best experience from the food.

    heston bloominmental has made good money from being non-traditional in the kitchen 😉

    i’ve worked in a cafe that used to microwave the sausages and bacon… funnily enough they were the best sellers at the time

    Ro5ey
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    Heretic!

    As the Mrs first put the bacon in the micro I felt the same…. But then the bacon and egg sandwich arrived seconds later and all was forgotten.

    The Mmmm I fancy a bacon sandwich divided by the Mmmm I’m tasting the bacon sandwich is the all important time equation 😀

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